Adequate protein intake protects muscle mass, helping to ensure good health and quality of life in seniors.

This primer on stabilizers explores their functionality in frozen desserts, to help formulators apply them in other food systems.

The Soy Symposium gathered together many of the key players in the soy food industry to explore the health benefits from soy consumption. At the same time, overall food industry experts delved into major topics and trends facing the industry as a whole.

The addition of fortifiers such as vitamins and minerals can go smoothly, if developers are aware of the perils and solutions available during processing.

The ability of soy proteins to contribute functional properties such as emulsification, gelation, foaming and water-binding is dependent upon understanding and utilizing their physic-chemical properties.

Prepared Foodsí 2007 R&D Seminar-CHICAGO presentations helped refresh the knowledge of chemical leaveners for texture and volume, sodium acid sulfate to lower pH and extend shelflife, nutritive sweeteners to help weight management, enzymes to help tenderize meats and calcium phosphate in beverages.

A variety of soy, dairy and egg proteins are available for the food formulator to obtain the desired texture in a food or beverage.

Updated and reposted January 2010. Whey proteins offer unique nutritional benefits including the highest biological value of natural proteins, containing all

The FDA acknowledges that both soy protein and sterols can provide a means for consumers to help reduce their risk of heart disease as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol.

Main Street Ingredients is recognized as a leading formulator and manufacturer of private-label nutritional systems, Keystone[tm] stabilizer systems, Cornerstone[tm] proteins and functional dairy ingredients, all of which serve the nutritional and food processing industries.